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Full Speed
- Director: Gaël Morel
- Writer: Gaël Morel
- Producer: Laurent Bénégui; Valérie Fumet
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With the irrepressible, ubiquitous and talented Stephane Rideau...
Morel paints a fine line between the sexualities and between the racist and the victim - it's a little simplistic in its execution but that maybe down to the fact that this is Morel's 1st feature.
Unfortunately, the bisexual becomes the selfish pariah (comme d'habitude) and the girl is just plain horrific and manipulative.
Morel doesn't exactly paint a pleasant picture of any of his characters - he obviously doesn't like any of them.
Hard to watch.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago.
Cast & Characters
Elodie Bouchez as Julie;
Stephane Rideau as Jimmy;
Pascal Cervo as Quentin;
Mezziane Bardadi as Samir;
Romain Auger as Rick;
Salim Kechiouche as Jamel;
Mohammed Dib as Karim;
Hasan Akyurek as Le boucher;
Marie-Claude Bacon as Cliente de la FNAC 2;
Ryad Benkouider as Ami de Jimmy 6;